Mind sayings | Mind quotes | Mind mottos

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean? - Source Unknown

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit. - Source Unknown

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. - Source Unknown

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Lyall Watson

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. - Colin Wilson

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices. - John Wooden

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. - Virginia Woolf

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. - William Wordsworth

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. - W. H. Auden

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. - Meher Baba

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter. - Itzhak Bentov

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri L. Bergson

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. - Elizabeth Bibesco

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. - Lord Buckley

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment. - Richard Carlson

Conviction is the conscience of the mind. - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. - Lord Chesterfield

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation. - Chuang Tzu

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind. - Winston Churchill

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. - Marcus T. Cicero

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. - Henry Courtney

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite. - Peter Daniel

If you never change your mind, why have one? - Edward De Bono

The Brain is wider than the sky-. - Emily Dickinson

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. - George A. Dorsey

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. - S. Dubay

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds. - Wayne Dyer

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. - Albert Einstein

The wavering mind is but a base possession. - Euripides

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. - Edward Fairfax

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. - Sigmund Freud

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. - Buckminster Fuller

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think. - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought." - Edith Hamilton

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer. - Dr. Jean Hanson

Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience. - Willis Harman

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control. - Gilbert Highet

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. - Napoleon Hill

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. - Nicholas Hilliard

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. - Bruce Jenner

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind. - John Lardner

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. - Maxwell Maltz

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. - Alfred E. Neuman

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. - Earl Nightingale

Half this game is 90% mental. - Danny Ozark

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition. - Maureen Phillips

We are that which activates the body. - Peace Pilgrim

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong. - Endless Praise

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. - Ayn Rand

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first. - Gabriele Lusser Rico

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. - Terry Riley

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. - Anthony Robbins

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve. - David Sarnoff

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. - William Shakespeare

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere. - Roger Sperry

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it. - Thomas Troward

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